Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 760 682
Rank change year-on-year +102 -78 +52
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 18 36 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.046% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.15% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 75
10th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £60,472
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,625 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% - -
75th Percentile £82,751 £85,420 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,810 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.08% - -28.57%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,669 24,694 25,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.68% 31.62% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,603 15,772 21,307
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +89 13 £78,810 -1.49% 21
Work from Home +75 13 £78,810 +5.08% 10
UK excluding London +118 10 £78,810 +5.08% 17
London +43 7 £78,810 -5.31% 16
North of England +25 3 £78,810 +5.08% 2
Wales +17 2 £70,000 -
Scotland - 2 £78,810 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £78,810 -
South West - 2 £78,810 -
South East +50 1 £65,000 -13.33% 7
North West - 1 £78,810 - 2

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) GCP
2 9 (50.00%) Apigee
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Anthos
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (50.00%) JUnit
2 9 (50.00%) Maven
2 9 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 9 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 10 (55.56%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Senior
2 9 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) GCP Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Spring
1 11 (61.11%) Spring Boot
2 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 9 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) Svelte
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) Next.js
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) Playwright
4 1 (5.56%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
1 9 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 14 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (72.22%) DevOps
3 12 (66.67%) Event-Driven
4 10 (55.56%) Microservices
4 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 10 (55.56%) Translating Business Requirements
5 9 (50.00%) OO
5 9 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 9 (50.00%) TDD
5 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
8 2 (11.11%) API Integration
8 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (11.11%) GitOps
8 2 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Java
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 11 (61.11%) SQL
4 10 (55.56%) Python
5 9 (50.00%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (77.78%) Terraform
3 10 (55.56%) Istio
4 3 (16.67%) Grafana
4 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Solace